THE PEACE OF LAND

A man holds a Pales­tinian flag and a baby olive tree dur­ing a demon­stra­tion in­tended to plant 300 olive trees in the vil­lage of Tur­mus Aya near Ra­mal­lah, in the Is­raeli-oc­cu­pied West Bank, on De­cem­ber 10,. Ziad Abu Ein, who was in charge of the is­sue of Is­raeli set­tle­ments for the Pales­tinian Author­ity, died af­ter scuf­fles with Is­raeli forces dur­ing the protest march in the West Bank, med­i­cal and se­cu­rity sources told AFP.